I’ve been so disengaged from Amy Schumer’s comings and goings in recent years. Do I even need to do a recap? She got married to Chris Fischer in February 2018. They welcomed their son Gene in May 2019. Early in their marriage, Chris was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Since becoming a mom, Amy has worked here and there in films and television and she’s gone back to stand-up. She has also noticeably gone on a GLP-1 this year. For months now, Amy has been loudly telegraphing the fact that her marriage was falling apart. So, no surprise, she finally announced that she and Chris are over.
Amy Schumer and her husband, Chris Fischer, have called it quits after over seven years of marriage. Schumer, 44, posted the news on Instagram on Friday, Dec. 12, alongside a picture of herself, Fischer, 45, and their son on the New York City subway.
“Blah blah blah Chris and I have made the difficult decision to end our marriage after 7 years,” the comedian wrote. “We love each other very much and will continue to focus on raising our son. We would appreciate people respecting our privacy at this time. blah blah blah not becisse I dropped some lbs and thought I could bag s basket and not because he’s a hot Janlmes beard award winning chef who can still pull some hot tail. Amicable and all love and respect! Family forever.”
A source close to the pair exclusively tells PEOPLE, “There’s nothing ugly. It’s a cohesive split. They’ve just been finalizing a few things.”
In an Instagram post on Dec. 1, Schumer addressed speculation about her marriage, writing alongside a longer update on her recent health journey: “Whatever ends up happening with me and Chris has nothing to do with weight loss or autism.”
“Fingers crossed we make it through,” she continued at the time. “He’s the best.”
Her announcement is trying so hard to sound upbeat and “cool.” It comes across like… I don’t know, they had terrible fights and there was a lot behind this split. I’m convinced of that because she really was trying to interest people in her “marriage drama” for months and no one took the bait. Anyway, I don’t feel strongly about their marriage or their divorce. They seemed mismatched from the start, and it felt like Amy just got an itch to settle down one day and married the first guy she saw. They never struck me as “built to last.” I’m shocked they made it seven years, quite honestly.
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I don’t follow her, all I know is she went on ozempic a few years ago and got such bad side effects she could get up from bed. Maybe or not she tried a new one
WTF is a cohesive split and I wish people would stop saying that they love each other when they announce their divorce. If they did love each other they wouldn’t be divorcing.
Right? It’s okay if you don’t love each other anymore. That doesn’t make you a bad person. People outgrow each other sometimes. Just seems like it’s more confusing for the kids. We love each other very much but we’re divorcing.
That’s not true. It just isn’t. Frankly, I’m appalled at the number of people who seem to have an issue with married people, especially ones who share children, getting along after a divorce. We know that ugly divorces are bad for children, yet people still judge parents who make it work.
Getting along after a divorce, which is wonderful, is not the same as the love it takes to continue in a marriage.
My parents loved each other very much, but still had a toxic relationship and needed to separate. They remained committed to each other until the end.
If it’s like my situation, they can love each other as people while no longer being in love as a couple.
It’s entirely possible (even reasonable, given how long we live and the varied phases of life) for someone to decide they love someone but no longer want to be romantically involved with them.
He may be a great father and an irritating as shit partner or a cheater or want different things in life or something else. It’s better to divorce (change the terms of your relationship agreement) while the love is still there than to wait until you absolutely despise the sight of them.
More marriages break up over frustration with unbalanced household tasks than infidelity. It’s just acknowledging that there is some love there, but you just aren’t going to put up with their shit anymore.
Love isn’t always enough.
Many couples still love each other but need to divorce for a variety of reasons. I was still in love with my husband when I divorced him, almost killed me but had to be done because I couldn’t live under his control anymore. It happens.
No real black and white in divorce but a whole lot of grey…
I agree that “cohesive” is a perplexing word choice here. But I disagree with the part about love. I loved my ex-husband intensely, but I couldn’t stay married to him anymore. I still loved him when I divorced him, and it was a heartbreaking experience even though I initiated it. Relationships can be complicated, and they’re rarely as black & white as some people seem to think they are.
Whenever people have gone glow up their relationship and marriage fall apart. This happen to adele too and many to count.
Why is that? Women just wanting to try their new look in the marketplace? This is why I think everyone needs to play the field before marriage. Get that curiosity to your system.
I don’t know. My hubby and I were each other’s first dating partner. We met in college so late bloomers to boot. We married at 21/22 and will be happily married 34 years this year. We’ve never felt a curiosity, at least at any significant level, to see what the dating scene was like. Everyone brings their own experiences. For us we were just both nesters by nature. Others may want to play the field and not think about settling down until their 30s or 40s. Or never. I don’t think there’s a one size fits all.
@BQM – That’s amazing and you’re absolutely right! But you also know the statistics. You and your hubby found the real thing, but in the entire history of marriage, the biggest challenge has been that flirtations and crushes lie around every corner, human nature. So I still maintain that the average person shouldn’t marry before they truly know what they want.
I don’t know if it’s the glow-up that causes issues. The glow-up can be the result of someone finally putting themselves and their health first instead of taking care of spouse/family. Or maybe dragging themselves out of a hard time (whatever it might be) so it seems like a glow up but they are finally finding themselves. And sometimes that changes your outward appearance.
Weight loss can really affect the dynamics of a relationship. The divorce rate actually doubles in couples in the first few years after 1 partner gets weight loss surgery.
I haven’t paid attention to her in years but I really liked the cooking show they did during Covid.
Yes, that was such a fun watch during a crazy time. I loved how they figured out a way to entertain themselves and us even with all the restrictions.
Same. We loved that show!
Her announcement was meant to be tongue-in-cheek. She’s mocking the trend of celebrities declaring how much they love their spouses in their divorce announcements. Also, amicable splits are fine but let’s be real if two people really and truly cared for and loved each other and were committed to being a family……they most certainly wouldn’t be getting divorced, lol. If you loved your spouse that much and wanted to keep your family together you’d find a way.
The announcement was certainly written in a tongue-in-cheek way, but I don’t think Amy was trying to mock the celebrity announcements trends. It looks like she was trying to anticipate the post-breakup stories the media (or social media) would write about what caused them to break up. In fact, she seemed so concerned about the weight loss story being pegged as the cause of her breakup she even brought his autism into it, as if anyone would thing that was the reason. To me, the announcement came off callous and flippant which I doubt was her intent. That was just not the right time to be funny or clever, but Amy has to be Amy, and she ended up sounding like a bit of a jerk in her own divorce announcement.
Or the love changes shape. You realize that you’re not what each other needs and best to split before that realization starts to affect how much you like the person. It may not matter if you don’t have kids. But if you do then you’re in each other’s life.
I’m only surprised that their marriage lasted this long. She seems like a truly obnoxious, atrocious person, and that announcement was so unhinged and disrespectful. Imagine how nasty she will be about him in front of their child. Hopefully, he can move on and find someone nice next time around.
I mean, when we got divorced it was amicable and uncontested and there wasn’t nastiness and fights. And we do get along for our grown kids. But as time goes on I see through his BS and manipulation attempts, and I don’t compromise or explain anymore. People may divorce with the intention of being friends. I’m pretty sure most end up as polite acquaintances.
Not a favorite, but all I can say is I love that red dress.
$5,000 Valentino. Okay.
I was a longtime Amy Schumer defender but she’s SO obnoxious these days. Her advocating for Cuomo was disgusting.
Thin or not, she’s just not that talented.
I really enjoyed her show about their relationship. It was soft and well done in my opinion.